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D. W. WHITAKER.

.PRINTERS GALLBY. No. 337,218. Patented Mar. 2, 1886.

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' UNITE STATES DAVID W. \VHITAKER, OF DURHAM, NORTH OAROLIN A, ASSIGNOROF ONE- HALF TO JAMES EDWIN LYON, OF SAME PLACE.

PRINTERS GALLEY.

ePECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,218, dated March 2.1886.

' Application filed February 9,1886. Serial No. 191,301. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, DAVID W. WHITAKER, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Durham, in the county of Durham and State of NorthCarolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in PrintersGalleys; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, which form apart of thisspecification, and in which- Figure l is a perspective view of myimproved galley. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, with a portion ofthe frame removed so as to show the locking-up mechanism. Fig. 3 is asimilar view of a modification of the same, and Fig. 4 is a verticalsectional view taken on line a: w in Fig. 3.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

My invention has relation to galleys having mechanism for locking up thematter which has been placed into the same, so as to allow a proof to betaken of the'matter without the necessity of locking the matter up withthe usual wedge-shaped quoins; and it consistsin the improvedconstruction and combination of parts of the same, as hereinafter morefully described and claimed.

The object of this application is to correct the defects shown in aprevious patent granted to me February 2, 1886, No. 335,494, in whicheach adjustable arm and its screw-threaded head was shown as constructedin one piece, which construction would render the device inoperative. Inow desire to show and describe the said parts as being pivotedtogether, as hereinafter specified.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates the galley, whichis shaped in the usual manner, with the exception that the one sidepiece of the galley is provided with an overhanging flange, B.

O is a bar of the same length as the interior of the galley, and thisbar has a number of arms, D, pivoted to its outer side in pairs, and theouter ends of these arms are provided with hinged heads or nuts E,having screwing a right and left hand perforation,whi'ch 'fit upon theright and left hand screw-threaded portions F of a bar, G, which turnsin longitudiual bearings H H at the ends of the flanged side piece ofthe galley. One end of this bar projects through the end piece of thegalley and is formed with a polygonal head, I, upon which a key orwrench, J, will fit, by means of which key the bar may be revolved. Itwill now be seen that by revolving the bar in one direction, the nuts ofthe hinged arms will be forced apart, which will draw the slid ing bartoward the flanged side piece of the galley, while by revolving thescrew-threaded bar in the opposite direction thehinged heads or nuts ofthe arms will be drawn together and straighten the arms out, which willforce the sliding bartowardtheinterior of the galley and against thematter which has been placed in the galley, clamping and holding it soas to allow a proof to be taken of the same.

In Fig. 3 is shown a modification of the invention, in which the outerends of the hinged arms are hinged to two sliding rods, K K, all thecorresponding arms of the several pairs being hinged to the same rod,and the middles of these rods are provided with cogged racks L, whichare engaged by a pinion, M, upon a short shaft, 0, journaled in bearingsin the flanged side piece, and having a polygonal head for the receptionof a key. It will be seen that by revolving this pinion in one directionthe bars will be forced outward, which will spread the outer ends of thearms and draw the sliding bar toward the side of the galley, and byrevolving the pinion in the opposite direction the bars will he slidtogether, drawing the outer ends of the arms together and forcing thesliding bar inward against the matter placed in the same. the matterplaced in a galley may be immediately locked up, and consequently beretained safely in the galley, preventing any accident happening to thematter while moving the galley about, and the galley will be readyfor-taking a proof of the matter without the necessity of locking thegalley-form up with the wedge-shaped quoins usually employed. The numberof pairs ofhinged arms is inthreaded perforations, each pair of nuts havIn this manner.

creased or decreased in proportion to the length of the galley, andconsequently of the sliding bar, which extends the full length of thegalley. The said sliding bar exerting the 5 same pressure at allpointsof its entire length, the matter in the galley may fill the entirelength of the same, or only a portion of the length, without anydifference.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim 10 and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States The combination of aprinters galley,a longitudinal bar sliding transverselyin the same parallel to thesides, arms hinged in pairs to 15 the outside of the said bar and havinghinged presence of two witnesses.

DAVID W. WHITAKER.

Witnesses:

LoUIs BAGGER, B. G. CowL.

